Posts from Trade Shows

Last weekend Christine and I spent a day walking the International Home + Housewares Show in Chicago. With rows upon rows of kitchen products vying for your attention, you're forced to get your 'only awesome things' radar on. Here are the 15 products we couldn't help but notice from a few favorites like Smeg, Le Creuset, BlendTec, Revol, KitchenAid, and more.

Every January I go to the Winter Fancy Food Show in my hometown of San Francisco, but this year I attended the even bigger International Home and Housewares Show in Chicago for the first time!

It's an impressive, slightly overwhelming experience to navigate enormous halls filled with kitchen and housewares, but it's fun to see the newest and shiniest goods that brands have to offer. Stopping at the KitchenAid booth is a must, especially to see the newest color(s) for the stand mixers.

Today The Kitchn is headed to the International Home + Housewares show in Chicago! If you've been reading The Kitchn for a while, you know that we hit this show every year on the lookout for new kitchen trends, products, and releases from our favorite brands like KitchenAid, Staub, Chef'n and more.

This week we'll reveal KitchenAid's new 2015 stand mixer color (always a highlight), as well as a roundup of the best things we saw at the show. Stay tuned!

Every January, the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco turns into one enormous, bustling food hall for the Winter Fancy Food Show. Here you'll find all the latest food trends, and it's always fun to wander the aisles sampling the creative nibbles coming out — wheels of cheese rubbed with Earl Grey tea, crunchy broccoli snacks, zero-calorie noodles, and new products galore. It's best to come with an appetite.

After Emma and I tasted our way through the show (and wore out our feet in the process), we sat down to decide on our favorites. Without further ado, here are ten new foods coming out in 2015 that you should definitely have on your radar!

Every July the Summer Fancy Food Show descends upon the convention center in New York City, bringing in its wake floods of cookie-makers, cheese-crafters, soda-brewers, and more gourmet jerky than you can shake a stick at. This is the show for anyone who makes fun packaged food, from roasted chickpeas to handmade ice cream.

Ariel and I walked the show and after a few dizzying hours, we had some favorites, and here they are.

Housewares is a huge trade show held every spring in Chicago, and it's the source of the home products you see the rest of the year at retailers from Target and Bed Bath & Beyond to your local independent kitchenwares shop.

Every year when I walk the show I look for interesting pockets of trends. Here are five we noticed this year, with photos of the cutest little mixer you've ever seen to the diner-inspired line from Jamie Oliver.

Last week several of our editors were at the International Home + Housewares Show in Chicago. We cover this enormous trade show every year, mostly to see what's new and interesting and trending in the world of kitchen tools and accessories. It's a huge, overwhelming show, and it's often full of things that I don't find too attractive.

But this year, the color trends we saw were really good. If you're in the market for new spatulas, dishes, or cookware, and if you prefer bright and juicy modern colors, this is the year to pick them up.

Several editors from The Kitchn were at the International Home and Housewares Show in Chicago this past weekend, looking to see what's fresh and new in the world of blenders, toasters, vacuums, cookware, and beyond. It's a huge trade show and always a bit overwhelming, but one of our first stops was also the one I look forward to each year: the new mixer colors at KitchenAid.

I know you guys are KitchenAid junkies — want to see this year's new colors?

I spent a whirlwind day at the Kitchen and Bath Industry Show in Vegas this week, and saw a number of cool kitchen products, like these lift-system cabinets and a whole slew of smart new faucets and sink accessories. Here's a final look at the 14 things that really caught my eye, from Kohler's new ridged apron front sink to Viking's super-high-speed TurboChef double oven.

At this year's annual Kitchen and Bath Industry Show (KBIS) we spotted a move towards products that make life in the kitchen less arduous — whether it's the push-activated lift-system cabinets I wrote about yesterday or, as in today's look, a set of smart faucets and sink accessories that operate quickly and almost intuitively.